--light-bg: values to light

[pohly]

Despite calling humanlog with --light-bg, additional values get colored with a very light color that is almost unreadable on a white background.

Apparently because of:

ValColor:          color.New(color.FgHiWhite),

Should different colors be used depending on --light-bg?

[aybabtme]

Hi @pohly, I recently changed the colors to use default ANSI colors so the tool would respect user themes. Doing this, I made the --light-bg become a no-op since in theory, a user's light color theme should be setup with appropriate colors. I setup colors like you link that I thought looked good enough on my terminal, but I'm sure others will have a different experience. If you have a chance, I'd appreciate if you could play with this color.FgHiWhite and let me know what looks best for you? Otherwise if you can share with me what your terminal color theme is, so I can test locally.

[pohly]

Thanks for the prompt response and the explanation. So I guess I really have to experiment with color.FgHiWhite and what might work better.

My desktop is a mixture: xmonad as window manager, Xfce as desktop, GNOME terminal as terminal app. The GNOME theme is Adwaita (shown in both Xfce and gnome-tweak-tool), with "Global dark theme" off (gnome-tweak-tool). A standard Xfce desktop should look the same.

[rickw]

text all the time and on a light background the fields are always white with or without --light-bg

on macOS

using the previous version the white is grey and actually readable...and light-bg works in that version

Figured it out, basically. The ANSI update and a theme that seems to conflict, other themes produce readable results. (brew install --HEAD is better than the last release)

[ChiefMateStarbuck]

Having the same issue here. logs are unreadable in light mode.

[hampgoodwin]

Bump <3

Edit:

Seems like the ANSI colors are just awful; so the theme is the issue which needs updating.

[aybabtme]

I hope to rework this soon so that it'll work better. Apologies for the current state of light-bg colors.